A26923:80
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 24. Many Protestant Doctors take up with the word [Greek or Hebrew]; whenas the usual sense both of that Word, and of Persona, is but a Relative Person, (not Aquinas and such others Relation, which is a substance, but) properly the same Person Natural, as related diversly: And if this were all, no man that owneth One God, would question a Plurality of Persons; so one man may have the relative Person of a King, a Husband, a Father, a Captain, General, a Physician, an Astronomer, &c.
§. 24. Many Protestant Doctors take up with the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; whenas the usual sence both of that Word, and of Persona, is but a Relative Person, (not Aquinas and such others Relation, which is a substance, but) properly the same Person Natural, as related diversly: And if this were all, no man that owneth One God, would question a Plurality of Persons; so one man may have the relative Person of a King, a Husband, a Father, a Captain, General, a Physician, an Astronomer, &c.
And though I hold not this Relative Personality is all that we are to acknowledge in the Trinity, yet I see no reason but in the second place it is included; that is, 1. The Relations which the Divine Vitality, Intellect and Will have to the substantiality, and to each other. 2. And the Relation which they have ad extra to Effects. And whereas it may be objected, that so God hath thousands of Relations to thousands of his Works; I answer, But he hath three grand Relations, which comprehend all the rest, as he is the God of Nature, Grace, and Clory, Creator, Redeemer, and Perfecter: As he hath the three grand Attributes, which comprehend the rest. But undoubtedly this Trinity of essential Attributes which are said to be related to the substantiality, and to each other, is here in the prime Conceptus.
§. 25. He that placeth Personality in the Trinity in SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, leaveth us to enquire of him: Q. 1. Whether it be by him presupposed or not, that there are the three foresaid Attributes called Essentialities or Formalities in one Divine [Greek or Hebrew], which we commonly call Substance or Spirit? Q. 2. Whether Conscire being scire, is not the